Table 1.

The Actual Complications That Occurred Broken Down Into Conversion to Open, Intraoperative Complications, Postoperative Complications, Number of Reherniations, and Number of Revision Surgeries

	Conversion to Open	Intraoperative Complications	Postoperative Complications	No. of Revision Surgeriess	No. of Recurrent Herniations
Learning phase (n < 32)	3	3	7	4	2
Mastery phase (n > 32)	0	0	2	1	1

These were divided into the learning and mastery phase and demonstrated that all complications occurred within the learning phase.